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Change your lifestyle with exercise

Once convicted of type 2 diabetes, people usually flock to a diet program or even change their overall lifestyle. Though a new study says just enough exercise.

This conclusion was obtained by a team of researchers from Leiden University, the Netherlands after observing 12 diabetic patients who were asked to do medium intensity exercise for six months. Participants who average the age of 46 years should exercise between 3.5 hours to 6 hours per week.

Every week, participants are asked to do resistance training twice and endurance exercise with the same frequency. In addition, the 12 participants also underwent an MRI scan, especially early in the period and after completing the exercise program for six months. At the end of the period, participants are also invited to do a climbing expedition for 12 days.

Then from the research report published in the journal Radiology it was revealed that the participants' heart function does not seem to change anything after being involved in a physical exercise program. But most of the participants had a significant reduction in the amount of fat in the stomach, liver and around heart, whereas the fat in the three organs is often associated with an increased risk of heart disease.

"We found that the second layer of fat around the heart (pericardial fat) exhibits the same behavior as abdominal fat (visceral fat) in response to physical exercise, but the fat content in the liver decreases substantially after exercise." Hildo Lamb from Leiden University Medical Center.

According to him, efforts to reduce fat in the liver associated with exercise is quite important for patients with type 2 diabetes. Because most of them are overweight or obese.

"Liver organs play a central role in regulating the distribution of body fat as a whole," press Lamb as reported by WebMD, Thursday (27/06/2013).

"Decreasing the volume of fatty liver and belly fat by doing physical exercise also becomes so important in order to overcome the side effects of lipid accumulation (fat) in other organs, such as heart and blood vessel walls," he concluded.